Research and Databases
Research and Databases
Welcome to Bound Brook High School Research & Database Hub
Discover a world of knowledge at your fingertips! Our library is your gateway to comprehensive research tools, academic databases, and expert resources tailored to support your studies, teaching, or professional pursuits.
- Explore Databases: Access a wide range of scholarly articles, eBooks, journals, and datasets.
- Research Support: Get guidance from our librarian, Ms. Betancourt – Jbetancourt@bbrook.k12.nj.us
Start exploring today!
Tips for finding reliable information:
Information is moving fast and it can be hard to decipher between truth or clickbait. Here are some tips to help you.
- Use trustworthy websites such as .gov (government), .edu (educational institutions), .org (organization).
- Peer-reviewed articles and books, meaning they have been reviewed by experts in field.
- Reputable magazines (National Geographic, Time, Science News) and newspapers (The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Associated Press) that are known for factchecking.
- Sounds made up? Check a fact checking website like Snopes or Factcheck.
- Check that the article you are reading has an author listed and a date as to when it was published, details matter.
- Lastly, always check with a second source. If it was published once, a major second outlet should be reporting on the same headline.
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DATABASES
To access any of the databases, please use the following credentials.
Click on the corresponding image to be directed to the site.
Username: bbhs
Password: crusaders
Password: boun_log
Can use school Gmail to log in
ALL GALE DATABASES CAN BE TRANSLATED INTO SPANISH
You can use your school GMAIL to login
Spanish Databases
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English
To access the database, click "access database."
GALE IN CONTEXT : Bloom's Literature
Bloom’s Literature is a multimedia solution that enriches literature studies with overviews, criticism, author biographies, and background context. Support diverse learners with audio and video content, build critical-thinking skills, and connect literature to the real world.
Novelist – Literary Fiction
NoveList is a comprehensive readers’ advisory solution for fiction lovers. With an intuitive interface and extensive proprietary content, NoveList answers the question: What should I read next?
Literary Reference Source – Literary Reference
Literary Reference Source is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes
Points of View Reference Source – Critical Thinking Resource
Points of View Reference Source is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).
Academic Search Premier – Academic Research
Access over 1000 journals on a host of subject matters and 75,000 videos from the Associated Press going back over 90 years.
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Science
To access the database, click "access database."
GALE IN CONTEXT – Science
Gale In Context: Science is an engaging online resource that provides in-depth contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. By integrating authoritative reference content with experiments, projects, interactive simulations, videos, and images, students see how real-world issues relate to scientific disciplines across the curriculum.
INFOBASE – Science Online
Science Online is an all-in-one resource that brings together Science Online, offering comprehensive coverage across core scientific disciplines along with up-to-date news, discoveries, interactive experiments, and expert insights—supporting STEM instruction, research, critical thinking, and information literacy.
GREENFILE – Environmental Science
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.
Academic Search Premier – Academic Research
Access over 1000 journals on a host of subject matters and 75,000 videos from the Associated Press going back over 90 years.
Points of View Reference Source – Critical Thinking ResourcePoints of View Reference Source is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).
Health Source: Academic/Nursing Edition – Health & Nursing
Health Source: Academic/Nursing Edition is a trusted full-text database covering nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more.
Health Source: Consumer Edition – Consumer Health
This rich collection of consumer health information provides access to full-text consumer health magazines and reference books. It also includes searchable full text for current health pamphlets.
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Business Databases
To access the database, click "access database."
Business Source Elite – Business Publications
This business database provides full text for over 1,000 business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from MarketLine are also included. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Small Business Source – Business Reference & Courses
The Small Business Source is a comprehensive resource for small business owners and those interested in starting a business, offering full-text periodicals and reports, sample business plans, U.S. tax forms, videos and reference books. It supports small business owners in all relevant areas from planning, financing and managing a business to exit strategies. Users also have the ability to search within specific ‘Business Topics’ and ‘Business Types’ relevant to their needs.
Points of View Reference Source – Critical Thinking Resource
Points of View Reference Source is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).
Regional Business News – Business Publications
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
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Health
Infobase: Health Reference Center
Username: bbhs Password: crusaders
Health Reference Center helps students build practical health knowledge and smart decision-making skills with trusted articles and videos on nutrition, mental health, substance abuse, and more—all in a safe, student-friendly space.
Health Source: Academic/Nursing Edition – Health & Nursing
Health Source: Academic/Nursing Edition is a trusted full-text database covering nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more.
Health Source: Consumer Edition – Consumer Health
This rich collection of consumer health information provides access to full-text consumer health magazines and reference books. It also includes searchable full text for current health pamphlets.
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History
GALE: US History
Password: boun_log
Discover American history from pre-colonial times to the present by reading historical documents and articles about the famous individuals in American history and about historical events. This resource includes maps, images and timelines.
Facts on File – American History
Username: bbhs Password: crusaders
American History offers a comprehensive look at American history from beginning to the present. Thousands of subject entries, biographies, images, videos and slideshows, maps and graphs, primary sources, and timelines combine to provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined American history.
Facts on File – Modern World History
Username: bbhs Password: crusaders
Modern World History offers a comprehensive look at world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Thousands of subject entries, biographies, images, videos and slideshows, maps and graphs, primary sources, and timelines combine to provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history. Focused Topic Centers pull forward interesting entries, search terms, documents, and maps handpicked by Infobase editors to help users find a starting point for their research, as well as videos and slideshow overviews to offer a visual introduction to key eras and regions. All the Infobase history databases in a collection are fully cross-searchable.
Facts on File – American-Indian History
Username: bbhs Password: crusaders
Infobase’s latest update to its American Indian History database adds approximately 100 new primary source documents, providing insight and firsthand looks into historical topics from the past several hundred years—perfect for document-based learning and strengthening critical-thinking skills. The new primary sources—ranging in format from letters and speeches to testimony, peace treaties, diary entries, reports, proclamations, and more—add great value by making history more immediate and real. Students and researchers can consult the Curriculum Tools menu for helpful tips on analyzing primary sources and completing a primary source worksheet.
Facts on File – African-American History
Username: bbhs Password: crusaders
African-American History Online is a comprehensive reference database from Facts on File, covering more than 500 years of African-American history—from the slave trade to the Civil Rights movement to the present day. Thousands of extensively hyperlinked and informative entries include topical entries, biographies, primary source documents, images, videos and slideshows, timelines, maps and graphs.
Facts on File – World Geography & Culture
Username: bbhs Password: crusaders
World Geography & Culture is a comprehensive reference site that makes it easy to study all aspects of a country, with facts at a glance and in-depth coverage through country entries, maps, flags, images, statistics, news articles, a gazetteer, and more. In addition, detailed entries about the U.S. states are also available. Ideal for history and geography classrooms and projects as well as for general country and U.S. state research, this online resource features an easy-to-navigate interface, search and browse tools, and tabbed search results.
Facts on File – Ancient and Medieval
Username: bbhs Password: crusaders
Focuses on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Islamic Empire from prehistory through the 1500s. Also includes a selection of primary sources.
Military & Government Collection – Government Research
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
Points of View Reference Source – Critical Thinking Resource
Points of View Reference Source is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).
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Databases for Teachers
Teacher Reference Center – Educator Resources
Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for hundreds of periodicals. In addition, 96% of journals indexed in TRC are peer-reviewed.
Topics include: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education.
ERIC – Academic Research
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
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EBSCO
Image Collection – Maps & Photographs
The Image Collection database consists of more than 1 million total images in these categories, broken down as follows:
Photographs
Images from Canadian Press, Getty Images, and UPI
Maps from Antenna Audio
Photographs from public domain sources
The images consist of a wide array of photos and maps, with an emphasis on world news and events. Other areas of coverage include contemporary and historical photos of people, places, and the natural kingdom.
Legal Information Source – Law Reference
Providing exclusive online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Source contains more than 225 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.
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ProQuest
HeritageQuest – Genealogy
HeritageQuest is a genealogical database with access to government records, census data and auxiliary resources to help find information regarding your family history.
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Peterson’s Test and Career Prep
Peterson’s Test and Career Prep – College & Career Prep
Search thousands of college and graduate schools, identify scholarships, take practice tests, create resumes, and explore careers.
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Database Training
If you require assistance in accessing any database, please click the link below. It provides a tutorial to guide you in its usage.